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"Complex and textured…goes beyond the social and the political, talking about hypocrisy, shattered dreams, the generation gap and loss." — Stefan Dobroiu, Cineuropa

The March 9 Opening Night screening is now completely SOLD OUT!

Director Komandarev (Oscar short-listed THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER) brings poignancy and a zesty sense of humor to an episodic drama set in the streets of Sofia, and unfolding in a series of taxi rides that reveal stories both black-humorous and tragic. While a shocking murder-suicide monopolizes the talk-radio airwaves, five tuned-in drivers meet up with fares through the night, ranging from a frisky businessman on an extramarital adventure to an unemployed teacher with a death wish, a doctor on an urgent mission, and a moonlighting priest. Disillusionment, betrayal and despair play out in a panorama of emotion balanced by the film's profound humanism. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Arri Media. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo

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"A celebration of the life of an extraordinary woman with whom most viewers will probably also have fallen in love by the time the credits roll." - Jonathan Holland, Hollywood Reporter

An award-winner at several film festivals as well as a surprise box-office hit in Spain, this documentary is a tribute by Spanish actor/filmmaker Salmerón to his 81-year-old mother Julita, whose many endearing eccentricities achieve outlandish proportions. Just one of them involves keeping two of her grandmother's vertebrae in a long-misplaced box, the search for which provides a running thread in the film. She also declares her desire to be buried in a nun's habit, and stages a full-scale dress rehearsal to prove it. The title refers to three wishes that were made by Julita as a girl and, in fairy-tale fashion, eventually came true. The castle itself is a hoarder's paradise of shelves, drawers, boxes, and closets bursting with a surreal jumble of wildly assorted paraphernalia, from armor to bullfighter capes to enema bags. But life isn't a fairy tale, and, like Spain itself, the family's fortunes turned downward with the 2008 economic crisis. Facing bankruptcy, they must now sell off the castle and most of its possessions, leading to a tortuous process of winnowing out the junk from the real junk. And fate has even more in store to test Julita's resolve... There's a GREY GARDENS vibe (but with a closer personal involvement of the filmmaker) to this funny/sad spectacle of indomitable idiosyncrasy enduring among ruined grandeur. In Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Dogwoof Ltd. DCP digital. (MR)

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Fri, Mar 9, 2018 - 04:00pm

Tue, Mar 13, 2018 - 06:00pm

The sparkling seascapes and ancient historical attractions of Malta play major roles in this romance that functions as a heartfelt valentine to the tiny archipelago nation. Giovanni (Olivier, of GLEE), an American tourist ducking out on business woes back home, lands in Malta, gets a wild ride of an introduction to the local culture from a rambunctious cab driver, and quickly meets Carmen (Peres, of ASSASSIN'S CREED), a fiery miss who's just ditched her faithless lover. Talk about a match - it's a girl with a suitcase and no place to stay and a guy with an empty apartment. Director Galea lets rocky romance take its course while never losing sight of Malta's truly breathtaking beauties and landmarks, including the famed rock formation known as the Azure Window, filmed shortly before its collapse. Named Best Film at the Malta International Film Festival. In English. Courtesy of Galea Pictures. ProRes digital. (BS)

Prendre le large

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Fri, Mar 9, 2018 - 02:00pm

Wed, Mar 14, 2018 - 08:15pm

"Gritty and affecting...A compelling vision of what it's like to live on the other side of the Mediterranean." - Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

"[Morel] succeeds in making an enlightening social film, a sensitive work on cultural differences and common humanity, as well as a moving portrait of a woman...This venture through the looking glass on economic migration is above all else, an occasion to admire a great actress in action." - Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa

Sandrine Bonnaire proves once again why she is one of the world's finest working actors, in a role that channels the fierce, even perverse sense of independence that has characterized her memorable performances in such films as VAGABOND and LA CÉRÉMONIE. She plays Edith, a 45-year-old widow whose life is centered on her job in a French textile factory. When the factory closes down, she astonishes everyone by choosing the relocation option over a tidy severance package. Relocation means a transfer to Tangiers, where she doggedly confronts hostility, culture shock, and sweatshop-like working conditions. Equal parts heroic, foolish, and mysterious, her struggle is devoid of self-pity or masochism, embodying what director Morel (APRÈS LUI) describes as a "tribute to the working class, where I come from." In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of UniFrance Films, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Europa International, and Europa Cinemas. DCP digital. (MR)

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Fri, Mar 9, 2018 - 02:00pm

Wed, Mar 14, 2018 - 06:00pm

Historian/filmmaker Suchsland, who surveyed Weimar-era cinema in FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER (2014), continues his journey through German film history with this fascinating exploration of its darkest, most problematic period. Closely overseen by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi film industry sought to become a second Hollywood - with state-of-the-art technology, a flourishing star system, and sophisticated marketing techniques aimed at a mass audience. Very few of the 1,000+ Nazi-produced films were overt propaganda, but, as Suchsland notes, almost none could be considered harmless entertainment, as they instilled state-supported values of duty, sacrifice, prejudice, and anti-individualism. With beautifully preserved excerpts, many in sumptuous color, the film revisits the Nazi cinema's great stars, its lavish blockbusters, and its now-obscure gems, such as the musical comedy WE MAKE MUSIC ("delightful, Lubitsch-like"), the proto-feminist BIG CITY MELODY, and the missing-person mystery COVERED TRACKS ("a great film noir"). In German with English subtitles. Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. DCP digital. (MR)

This film will be shown in the original German-language version with English subtitles, not with English-language narration by Udo Kier as previously announced.

Il padre d'Italia

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Sat, Mar 10, 2018 - 05:00pm

Fabio Mollo's second feature, arriving five years after his acclaimed debut SOUTH IS NOTHING, blends an offbeat love story with a freewheeling road movie to examine a generation poised on the brink of adulthood. Paolo (Marinelli) - thirtyish, gay, and morose - has recently broken up with his longtime boyfriend over the issue of raising children, which Paolo believes is unnatural for gay men. He is nursing his sorrow in a Turin nightclub when a woman collapses in his arms. Enter Mia (Ragonese), a six-months-pregnant free spirit living from hand to mouth, who commandeers Paolo to join her in a haphazard search for the child's father. After "borrowing" his boss's van, they head south, to Rome, Naples, and Calabria, on a journey that takes them beyond sexual categories, over-prolonged youth, and the weight of their pasts. Citing Xavier Dolan and Gianni Amelio as influences, director Mollo delivers a rich character study built on performances that demonstrate why Marinelli (also seen in RAINBOW and LET YOURSELF GO) and Ragonese are two of Italy's hottest actors. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Rai Com. DCP digital. (MR)

This fast-moving genre-bending hybrid inspires wonder as it careens through human rights drama, thriller, supernatural fantasy, and quasi-religious message film to end up as an action-packed black comedy. Director Mundruczó (WHITE GOD) tops himself with a magic realist tale of Aryan (Jéger), an illegal Syrian immigrant who rises miraculously from a violent death able to levitate at will, only to be cruelly blackmailed and exploited by a corrupt doctor, who represents the young man to gullible clients as an angelic healer. The story slides imperceptibly into a zanier mode that includes a heart-stopping car chase, SWAT-team action in the Grand Budapest Hotel, and a satisfying side of redemption. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Courtesy of The Match Factory. ProRes digital widescreen. (BS)

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"Enchanting…the incomparable Huppert gets to sing a few songs and model some fabulous dresses, but it is her sly, expressive performance that really dazzles." - Gary Kramer, Philadelphia Gay News

Isabelle Huppert (ELLE) dares once again to work outside her comfort zone, playing a has-been chanteuse unexpectedly courted by a man young enough to be her son. Anything but a cougar, buttoned-up, intensely private Liliane (Huppert) works a prep line in a catering firm's food factory, her glory days as the rising star who lost out to ABBA on a European TV talent show far in the past. A workplace flirtation with Jean (Azaïs), a twenty-something amateur boxer who still lives with his parents, turns into more when he coaxes her back into the limelight for what promises to be a risky and emotion-fraught reinvention for both of them. Huppert gamely gives her all in the musical numbers, especially the bouncy "Joli Garçon." In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Film Movement. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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Sat, Mar 10, 2018 - 08:00pm

Wed, Mar 14, 2018 - 08:15pm

A father-daughter relationship comes to a precarious turning point in this third feature by award-winning Cypriot director Georgiou (UNDER THE STARS, SMALL CRIME). An evening that climaxes in the forbidden thrill of throwing a Molotov cocktail in an Athens street demonstration has a chilling coda when teenaged Margarita goes home to face her dad, a riot squad cop who was wounded in the encounter. Forced into a time-out weekend at an isolated country cottage alone with her furious father, the rebellious girl refuses all attempts at peacemaking overtures, and instead gets a deeper look into the violent camaraderie of the police force. In Greek with English subtitles. Courtesy of Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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"Hilarious and horrifying…it's a vision of totalitarian madness as shudderingly pertinent as it is outrageous." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"The whipsmart dialogue and deftly syncopated timing are pure Iannucci. The film is uproariously funny but painfully close to the bone in a world where once again the lunatics have taken over the asylum." - Lisa Mullen, Sight & Sound

All screenings are now SOLD OUT!

Having proven himself the master of contemporary political satire with his last feature IN THE LOOP and his critically beloved TV series "The Thick of It" and "Veep," Armando Iannucci sets his sites on Russian history and the power vacuum left by the death of one of the twentieth century's greatest tyrants. When Joseph Stalin is felled by a stroke after decades of terrorizing his political subordinates and the USSR at large, a struggle for who will take his place begins at the highest level of the Soviet regime, pitting the head of the secret police Lavrenty Beria (played with uncompromising viciousness by Simon Russell Beale) against the politically ambitious Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi). Without shying away from any nasty particularities like state-sanctioned murder, Iannucci plays this bloody passage of Russian history as farce, ensuring that every one of the film's plentiful laughs will stick in your throat. In English. Courtesy of IFC Films. DCP digital. (CW)

This poetic portrait of the life of traditional Irish folksinger Joe Heaney is less a documentary than a set of impressionist tableaux that capture the mood of the hard, spare life of Heaney's rural childhood and the footloose career as a laborer and pub-singer that finally takes him to America. Elegant black-and-white cinematography gives the vistas of County Galway a timeless quality, and beautifully accentuates the underlying gravity and melancholy of many of the vocal performances. Archival footage of Heaney himself blends seamlessly with dramatic reenactments. A must-see for any devotee of traditional Irish music. In Irish Gaelic and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. DCP digital. (BS)

This gentle and unusually nostalgic look at the WWII years through the eyes of a young boy yields a fresh take on a time more often seen through the filter of violence. The family of eight-year-old Eda is forced to forsake Prague life and move in with rural relatives after the Germans commandeer their apartment. Adjusting quickly, Eda takes the presence of a succession of Nazis, Russians, and Americans as all part of the exotic pageant of his new country life, in this story based on the autobiographical novel by Zdenek Svěrák, the director's father. Director Jan Svěrák (Oscar winner KOLYA) seamlessly blends a child's viewpoint with the adult reality of the larger picture, and creates a lovely bit of magic realism around Eda's relationship with a prodigal uncle. In Czech with English subtitles. Courtesy of Biograf Jan Sverák. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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"A malevolent story twisted into a rural nightmare with the same intricacy and mind-bending sensibilities of a vintage Polanski thriller." - Kyle Kohner, The Playlist

A scruffy long-haired stranger walks into a farming village looking for seasonal work, but the locals turn their backs until a quickie that night with Lucy, (Krieps) the mayor's flirty blonde daughter, turns the tide. Jens (Lau) is not exactly what he seems, but neither are the neighbors in the close-knit community that now welcomes him with a job as a harvest hand, a place to stay, and wary companionship, now that he and Lucy are an item. Director Van Maele fosters a creeping sense of dread in this edgy thriller, letting ominous details including a mysteriously abandoned house, a near-fatal accident in a cornfield, and a batch of crudely erotic photos of local women signal that the unknown is right around the corner. The clues point in disparate directions, and don't add up…until they do. In Luxembourgish and German with English subtitles. Courtesy of Dark Star Pictures. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Winner of five Donatello Awards, this offbeat modern-day fairy tale centers on Viola and Dasy, two conjoined twins whose angelic beauty and heavenly voices brighten the rough Naples neighborhood where they live and perform under the exploitative thumb of their parents. When a doctor informs them that they could be separated without risk, the adventurous Dasy persuades the timid Viola that they should run away, and they set out into a world filled with menace and promise. With nods to Fellini and Sorrentino, director De Angelis employs a fluid widescreen style that blends the tawdry and the magical to haunting effect, and real-life identical twins Angela and Marianna Fontana deliver subtle, affecting performances whose appeal extends far beyond gimmickry. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Ira Deutchman. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc

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Sun, Mar 11, 2018 - 03:00pm

Thu, Mar 15, 2018 - 06:00pm

"Pitched somewhere between Straub-Huillet and Headbangers Ball, Monty Python and Messiaen, Bruno Dumont's new feature JEANNETTE marks an unexpected and near-perfect synthesis of the French iconoclast's many disparate interests and obsessions… he's responsible for some of the most exhilaratingly alive cinema in the world right now." - Jordan Kronk, Cinema Scope

In 1425 in the small village of Domrémy, the future Joan of Arc is still Jeannette, an impetuous 8-year-old shepherdess troubled by France's ongoing war with England who communicates her spiritual crises to her family, her neighbors, and the relentlessly bleating flock of sheep she tends through song and dance. Setting Jeannette's laments to a pounding, electronics-heavy score by French metal musician Igorrr, the resolutely unpredictable Bruno Dumont (LI'L QUINQUIN) directs one of the strangest musicals in recent years, a humanizing and massively endearing portrait of one of French history's most iconic figures, complete with rapping, head-banging, and all manner of goofy, amateurish dancing. Indulging in many of his artistic signatures, including utilizing non-actors (performing their songs live for the camera to add an extra bit of verisimilitude), shooting on location in picturesque French countryside, and lacing the film with an oblique, deadpan mysticism, Dumont's latest is another unclassifiable left turn from one of contemporary cinema's most exciting voices. In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of KimStim. DCP digital. (CW)

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This deceptively somber drama takes a screeching left turn into black comedy, and has been termed "the Croatian FARGO." Goran (Dijak, in a wonderfully subtle deadpan performance), a morose cab driver in the boondocks of the country's snowy hinterland, has every reason to celebrate. It's his birthday; he's finished building a sauna at his getaway cottage; and his wife has just announced she's pregnant, news that will strangely enough set off a violent chain of events. Unknown to winsome blind wife Lina, Goran is sterile, a fact that puts each of his clutch of good-time buddies under suspicion. A startling home video revealed in the course of an all-night boozer becomes the linchpin of the story, and director Marasovic's hilariously dark ace in the hole. In Croatian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Dark Star Pictures. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Rohelised kassid

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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 - 02:00pm

Sun, Mar 18, 2018 - 05:15pm

After a lifetime behind bars, newly paroled cellmates Markus (Kark) and Eduard (Makovetski of BURNT BY THE SUN 2) still have a few tricks up their sleeves in this gentle tragicomic caper that sparks with the masterful interaction of two veteran actors. Taking time to get their personal affairs in order, the two agree to meet up in a week. An old hand at larceny, Markus effects a no-cost makeover before pursuing a courtship, but finds that a walk down memory lane may be leading to a dead end. Sly, spry Eduard reclaims his red-hot motorcycle along with its secret stash, and scores a red-headed partner in crime at the welfare office. The surprise circumstances of their reunion change everything. In Estonian and Russian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Leo Production. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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"Doesn't try to sell us the image of the angelic child…It's hard to think of many films that have approached childhood with this much respect and with this much integrity." - Diego Semerene, Slant Magazine

This remarkable documentary traces a few days in a Dutch village school for a group of very young elementary students, all recent immigrants from nations including Syria. The filmmakers take an intimate view as the unflappable Miss Kiet, a wise and nurturing teacher, gently but firmly encourages, guides and listens as her small charges learn Dutch and struggle with challenges ranging from wet pants or a purloined eraser to jealousy and bullying, while living with the memory of war traumas that have already scarred and shaped them. The film's view of this haven of compassion and civility suggests a host of questions concerning the assimilation of immigrants and the greater direction of childhood education itself. A must-see for parents, teachers, or anyone who was once a child. In Dutch with English subtitles. Courtesy of Icarus Films. DCP digital. (BS)

Attendees will receive a complimentary Daelmans stroopwafel cookie.

This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York and the EU Policy & Outreach Partnership (EU POP) of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States.

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"An undercurrent of humor runs through FIRSTBORN, but it runs very deep…sports a gorgeous and refined aesthetic." - Emmet Duff, Goomba Stomp

A thriller that intricately chronicles the dissolution of a marriage of opposites, FIRSTBORN is set in the world of effete urban couples, the kind of people who sip cocktails in the living room while watching their kids reenact Noh drama. Francis, a bookish intellectual, and his wife Katrina are accosted and robbed by a biker while walking home tipsy one night from just such a party. The humiliating incident poses a double threat and a psychic challenge to the husband's shaken sense of manhood when it is followed by the announcement of Katrina's long-hoped-for pregnancy, and by a police investigation led by a detective who just happens to be her old boyfriend. In Latvian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Reel Suspects. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

A stuffy fiftyish Viennese music critic gets unceremoniously dumped by his newspaper in favor of a clueless but cheaper millennial, kicking off this arch mid-life crisis-revenge comedy, the first feature as writer/director by popular standup comic and actor Hader (STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE). Georg (Hader) continues to fake the highbrow life to his younger baby-craving psychiatrist wife, while leading the humiliating lowbrow routine of the unemployed. Hader casts a satirical eye on both his hero and his adversaries, as a chance encounter puts Georg in an unusual business arrangement with his childhood nemesis, while he plots a string of prankish strikes against his former editor. In German and Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of The Match Factory. ProRes digital widescreen. (BS)

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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 - 05:00pm

Wed, Mar 21, 2018 - 06:00pm

Two countries, two generations, two secrets - director Kopetanovic's first feature movingly explores a divided world and the possibilities of bridging its boundaries. Zlatko (Dragisic), a Bosnian refugee who came to Sweden over twenty years ago, has left his painful past behind him - until his Swedish-born daughter insists on being taken to Sarajevo to visit the aunt she has never seen. But there is a secret surrounding this aunt, whom Zlatko sends money to every month, just as there is another secret surrounding Zlatko's former home, which he avoids showing to his daughter. This tale of loss and remembrance contains an undercurrent of dark humor, as well as a heartfelt tribute to the city of Saravejo, rising from its battle-scarred ruins. Despite its modest running time and unheralded director, AUNT nabbed six nominations for Sweden's prestigious Guldbagge Awards, winning for Best Direction and Best Supporting Actress. In Swedish, Bosnian, and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute and China Åhlander. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Preceded by REFUGEE 532 (2016, Sweden, 15 min.), Kopetanovic's short film about a resourceful Bosnian boy in a Croatian refugee camp. In Bosnian and Swedish with English subtitles. Courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute and China Åhlander. DCP digital widescreen.

Una questione privata

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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 - 06:30pm

Wed, Mar 21, 2018 - 06:00pm

"Beautifully resonant...at once a summing-up of the Tavianis' filmmaking and an affirmation of their unshaken belief that human life is an uneasy compromise between the private and political spheres." - Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

RAINBOW marks over sixty years of filmmaking for the illustrious Taviani brothers (with Paolo receiving sole director credit this time, and older sibling Vittorio serving as co-screenwriter), and their ability to create powerful, at times startling images remains undiminished. Adapting Beppe Fenoglio's 1963 novel, they return to the subject of their 1982 masterpiece THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS with another tale of Italian Resistance fighters during World War II. This time the tone is more romantic, with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Wuthering Heights" the main reference points, and mist and fog the central recurring imagery. A bookish Resistance fighter using the alias Milton (Marinelli) comes upon a hilltop mansion that triggers memories of the golden prewar days of his romance with the beautiful and elusive Fulvia (Bellè). When his best friend (and possible romantic rival) Giorgio is captured by the Fascists, Milton desperately sets out to obtain a hostage to exchange for Giorgio, embarking on an eerie journey through a hilly Piedmont landscape haunted by war and memory. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Pyramide Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Please note: This trailer does not have English subtitles. Our screenings of the film will be subtitled in English.

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"Enlightening, poignant and even occasionally funny...the final moments, filmed in Finisterre - a place the ancient Celts considered the end of the world - are deeply moving." - Glenn Sumi, NOW Toronto

Several films (including Emilio Estevez's THE WAY) have been made about the Camino de Santiago, the 600-mile route across northern Spain that has attracted pilgrims since the Middle Ages. This documentary (whose title reminds us that the word "pilgrim" derives from the Latin for "stranger") is distinguished by its graceful interweaving of four different threads. The first is its stunning cinematography, which goes beyond picture-postcard prettiness to achieve true visual sublimity. The second is an informal Spanish-language narration that fills in the background of the Camino while avoiding academic dryness. The third is a mosaic of voiceover commentaries by the pilgrims themselves, their personal testimonies ranging from the irreverent (one complains about "Camino snobbism") to the enlightened. The fourth centers on the acclaimed young American cellist (and the film's co-producer) Dane Johansen, who combines the physical pilgrimage with a musical one, walking the Camino with his cello strapped to his back and performing Bach's "Six Suites for Solo Cello" at 36 churches along the route. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of First Run Features. DCP digital. (MR)

Inimi cicatrizate

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"Alternately funny, raunchy and sad…becomes a metaphor for a confused European identity on the verge of generational shift." - Eric Kohn, Indiewire

"Feels almost literally like a window into the past…enough humor and emotion in the story to warm the film." - Allan Hunter, Screen Daily

While Hitler is coming to power in the outside world, a microcosm of 1937 Europe with all its follies, confusions and looming conflicts takes shape within the confines of an exclusive sanatorium, where promising young writer Emanuel (Rus) is being treated for a bone disease that is expected to be fatal. Director Jude (THE DEAD NATION, AFERIM!) draws on the semi-autobiographical novel by Jewish Romanian author Max Blecher for a narrative that is both effortlessly intellectual in its formal construction and filled with black-humorous scenarios, including a ward-wide drunken revel, and Emanuel's attempt at a sexual tryst in his hospital bed while encased in a full body cast. In Romanian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Big World Pictures. DCP digital. (BS)

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"One of the year's best LGBT romances...A MOMENT IN THE REEDS might be tender and insightful, but it's also sexy as hell." - Alistair Ryder, Gay Essential

This sensitive romance has been billed as the first gay love story to be made in Finland. Mikko Makela's first feature has some coincidental similarities to the acclaimed British film GOD'S OWN COUNTRY, but it has its own distinctively lyrical flavor. Leevi, a literature student studying in Paris, returns to Finland after his mother's death to help his father fix up their lakeside cabin. Hired to assist them is Tareek, a recent Syrian refugee working as a manual laborer despite his training as an architect. When Dad goes away on business, Leevi and Tareek commence a romance that moves from tentative to passionate to serious, despite the constraint of having to communicate in a language - English - alien to both of them. The return of Leevi's conservative father brings with it the twin demons of homophobia and xenophobia, straining the lovers' relationship to the breaking point. In Finnish and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of The Film Collaborative. DCP digital. (MR)

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël

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Sat, Mar 17, 2018 - 05:30pm

Thu, Mar 22, 2018 - 06:00pm

"Exhilarating, overflowing mindf___ of a movie...the film's sheer scope and ambition, as well as the panache of its execution, render it intoxicating and immensely fun to get lost in." - Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage

One of the most important and original French filmmakers of his generation, Arnaud Desplechin (A CHRISTMAS TALE, MY GOLDEN DAYS) is known for rich, multileveled films that combine stylistic flair with deep character exploration. ISMAEL'S GHOSTS is his most extravagant and ambitious film yet, a wild mélange of 8½ and VERTIGO, with a dash of spy thriller thrown in. The main character is Ismaël Vuillard (Almaric in his seventh Desplechin film), a filmmaker on the verge of a creative breakdown as he struggles to complete a tale of diplomatic intrigue supposedly based on the exploits of his late brother Ivan (Louis Garrel). Off the set, stability is provided by Ismaël's lover Sylvia (Gainsbourg), but that stability shatters when his first wife Carlotta (Cotillard), missing for 20 years and presumed dead, unexpectedly shows up. Is she real, a ghost, or an extension of Ismaël's imagination? Everything is up for grabs in this personal, playful, and utterly unpredictable take on the instability of identity. This director's cut is twenty minutes longer than the version that played as the opening night film of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Magnolia Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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Sat, Mar 17, 2018 - 08:15pm

Thu, Mar 22, 2018 - 08:30pm

A huge helping of Mediterranean sun and sea, followed in due course by a luscious bounty of grapes, olives, artisanal cheeses and plentiful wine makes this delightful story of a stressed-out executive's reinvention go down easy. Until the day he is laid off, Johnny (Corraface), manager for a four-star hotel chain, is all but immune to the lush beauties of the island of Crete, where he lives with his second wife and teenage kids. At loose ends while the family goes on with their busy lives, Johnny humorously begs his vineyard-owning neighbor for a job in the grape harvest. One thing leads to another in this pure fantasy of a plot that rides on the abundant charm of international star Corraface while showing off Crete's eye-popping landscape and traditional culture at every turn. In Greek and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of the director. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Like CATCH THE WIND (playing March 9 & 14), NUMBER ONE serves as an example of the meaty, unconventional roles available to mature actresses in recent French cinema. César-nominated Devos (READ MY LIPS, KINGS AND QUEEN) plays an ambitious and highly effective senior executive in a sustainable energy company who is scouted by a feminist caucus to vie for a job that would make her the first-ever female CEO of a CAC 40 (the French equivalent of Dow Jones) company. At first, she is reluctant to "play the feminist card," but, with the glass ceiling looming in her present position, she throws her hat in the ring. Her decision plunges her into a ruthless arena of corporate hardball, filled with dirty tricks, blackmail, and character assassination. Drawing upon real-life models, director Marshall (VENUS BEAUTY) and her screenwriters do a superb job of dramatizing the games that a woman must play (and put up with) as the only female in the boardroom, further complicated by responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Pyramide Films. DCP digital. (MR)

A famous strike in a Lisbon factory became the inspiration for this hybrid of a strike drama that veers freely and unexpectedly from its prevailing cinéma-vérité style to include unorthodox musical numbers. The morning shift shows up at an elevator factory only to find their production equipment being loaded onto trucks. Management claims there's nothing to worry about, but the workers are soon faced with the impossible choice between accepting a severance package or digging in their heels. Incorporating non-professional actors in a large ensemble cast, director Pinho approaches the drama from every angle, from the collective to the personal, and from the hardcore realism of workers' meetings to the whimsy of impromptu dances on the factory floor. In Portuguese and French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Memento Films International. DCP digital. (BS)

Hungary's runaway box office hit of the past year is a wildly over the top celebration of a national hero that happens to be a racehorse, one-time favorite of the crowned heads of Europe, and offspring of Queen Victoria's stallion. The pomp and pageantry of the empire at its height figure grandly in this tale, and director Herendi piles on the passion, star-crossed romance, colorful anachronisms and made-up details like a lucky-charm stable cat. A military coup makes an orphan of boy aristocrat Erno, and the family estate reverts to the victor. Adult Erno (Nagy), a penniless wastrel and gambler with a keen eye for horse flesh, meets haughty horse-owner Klara (Petrik), daughter of his dad's killer, and they're soon off and running. In Hungarian and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of the Hungarian National Film Fund. ProRes digital widescreen. (BS)

A road movie set against the ever-changing landscape of Chile, this story of a forty-something Dutch woman's attempt to kick over the traces of her former life in a foreign country follows an impulsive journey that produces psychic fallout when cultures collide. Maud (Lodeizen), the childless survivor of one too many miscarriages, ditches her husband on their Andes ski vacation and takes off alone in the night, a hitchhiking backpacker with a series of made-up identities. A ride with an abusive truck driver ends with Maud escaping with his little boy, who calls himself Messi after his favorite soccer star. Less a surrogate mother than a free-spirited playmate, Maud finds fun times wearing thin in the face of the child's expectations, and searches her soul for an endgame. In Dutch and Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Visit Films. DCP digital. (BS)

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Like a JULES AND JIM for the 21st century, this radical reworking of rom-com formulas challenges conventional notions of gender, marriage, and family. Dance teacher Eva (Chaplin) and barge restorer Kat (Tena) are a lesbian couple living on a canal boat along London's Regent's Canal. Well into her thirties, Oona feels the call of motherhood, but the more bohemian Kat sees this as a threat to her unanchored lifestyle. Along comes Kat's Spanish friend Roger (David Verdaguer), hetero and horny, who is more than willing to break the impasse with a sperm donation. The three maintain a volatile ménage amid the cramped quarters and thin walls of the boat, until a catastrophic event threatens to split them apart forever. Director Marques-Marcet (10,000 KM) makes superb use of the secluded, shady backwaters of Regent's Canal, and Geraldine Chaplin has a juicy cameo as Kat's dotty but perceptive mom. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Visit Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

A trove of 8,600 glass plate negatives of photographs taken between 1937 and 1946 in a Romanian small-town studio became the raw material for director Jude's (SCARRED HEARTS, AFERIM!) searing look at the fate of the nation's Jews in this film essay that comes together in the reality gap between what is seen and what is not seen. Grouped by year, photos of prosperous Aryan families and farmers posing with prize livestock, smiling young men in uniform, and children in Sunday best exist in synch with the raucous strains of fascist anthems and virulent anti-Semitic radio rants, and in stark contrast to narration from the diary of Emil Dorian, a Jewish doctor who meticulously recorded the rising tide of off-screen persecution and horror as it progressively impacted his life and career. In Romanian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Taskovski Films. ProRes digital. (BS)

A fast-moving crime story laced with grit and humor, A HUSTLER'S DIARY (the Swedish title is a slang equivalent of "gotta split") references GOODFELLAS in its opening montages but soon settles into its own distinctive groove. Metin Turkoglu (played with scruffy verve by Demirtas, who also co-wrote the screenplay) lives a thug's life in the Turkish-immigrant ghetto of Jordbro - torching cars, breaking and entering, pawning stolen goods. But an underlying dissatisfaction surfaces in his decision to attend a drama-school audition and his compulsive writing of a secret diary on his criminal exploits. Filled with incriminating material, the diary accidentally falls into the hands of a high-toned book editor looking for the next hot thing. As Metin scrambles to get the document back, his culture-clash encounters with the literary world provide the film's comic grist, and his bumpy path toward redemption reveals its heart. In Swedish with English subtitles. Courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Alte Jungs

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Fri, Mar 23, 2018 - 02:00pm

Wed, Mar 28, 2018 - 06:00pm

When adult children insist on treating their parents like naughty toddlers, four gentlemen of a certain age mount a rebellion that is comic fodder for director Bausch, foremost native chronicler of Luxembourg's humorous side through a career-long string of comedies. Nuckes, seventy-something security guard at a retirement home and purveyor of smuggled cigarettes and other forbidden goodies, joins with Fons, the resident who rigs up clandestine TV porno channels for his friends, to bust out and restart life on their own terms. Soon it's a movement of feisty fed-up seniors ripe to explore a plan to buy a house and found their own co-op colony. Luxembourg's status as an international banking center comes in for spoofing when the plan starts to run off the rails when the group goes looking for a loan. In Luxembourgish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Paul Thiltges Distribution. ProRes digital widescreen. (BS)

With its explicit references to Marine Le Pen and the Front National, THIS IS OUR LAND quickly became the most controversial film of the year in France, although its convincing depiction of how right-wing "populist" movements soft-pedal their extremist positions has much wider relevance. The story centers on Pauline (Dequenne, who debuted in the Dardenne Brothers' ROSETTA), a well-liked nurse in a northern French town who is recruited by the "Renewed Nation Party" as an ideally inoffensive candidate to run for mayor. Flattered, the essentially apolitical Pauline goes along, submitting to an image makeover that includes dyeing her brown hair a more electable blonde. But her burgeoning political career begins to conflict with her personal life - when her left-wing union-loyalist father disowns her, and when her image-conscious political handlers try to quash her rekindled romance with an old high-school sweetheart who, unbeknownst to her, has ties to a neo-Nazi movement. In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Distrib Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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"What could be the best horror film of the year is ingeniously crafted with twists and turns you don't see coming." - Whitney Scott Bain, Starburst

Based on hit London play by co-directors Dyson and Nyman, GHOST STORIES draws cleverly on such classic creepshows as THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, DEAD OF NIGHT, and THE EVIL DEAD, but it serves up plenty of straight-to-the-gut jump-scare moments, too. Three stories-within-the-story are nested in a wraparound involving Prof. Philip Goodman (Nyman), a Jewish skeptic who has devoted his life to debunking phony psychics and spiritualists. He gets a rude shock when his longtime idol Dr. Charles Cameron (Leonard Byrne), king of the debunkers, renounces his former skepticism and sends Goodman to investigate three cases that seem beyond rational explanation. The first involves a night watchman (Paul Whitehouse) in a moldering former asylum for women, the second an adolescent joyrider (Alex Lawther of "The End of the F***ing World") who runs over a demon, and the third a Scottish business honcho (Freeman) whose wife's pregnancy is complicated by poltergeists. Goodman's rationalism is unfazed by these seemingly unrelated case histories, but then the film cuts loose with a series of spectacular twists that collapse the three tales into each other for a karmic comeuppance that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. In English. Courtesy of IFC Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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Fri, Mar 23, 2018 - 03:45pm

Thu, Mar 29, 2018 - 08:30pm

"Takes one surprising left turn after another...never less than unique." - Nick Schager, Variety

Fairy tales serve as a wackily weird foundation to a story shot through with magic realism, as lonely eleven-year-old Misha, rejoining his widowed mother after a two-year absence, meets an ogre in the form of his new stepfather. Set against the background of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the film creates its own internal mythology with a bit of Oedipal rivalry, a dash of harsh realism, and a whole lot of whimsy, when the imaginative boy comes under the unorthodox home schooling of a stern and half-crazy geezer bent on reenacting his past as the host of a children's TV show. Director Pyskou, named by Variety as one of "10 European directors to watch," imbues her allegorical film with a delicate sense of wonder. Winner of the Jury Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. In Russian and Greek with English subtitles. Courtesy of Heretic Outreach. DCP digital. (BS)

Serce miłości

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Sat, Mar 24, 2018 - 08:15pm

Tue, Mar 27, 2018 - 08:00pm

"An original and organic vision that is served up to us with all the beauty of the images." - Roberto Oggiano, Cineuropa

Love of art provides the erotic drive for two Warsaw artists in this fictionalized on-screen chronicle of their relationship that functions as a love story, performance art in the making, and a tale of rivalry. Graphic artist, poet, and avant-garde musician Wojtek Bakowski (Poniedzialek) and younger writer Zuzanna Bartoszek (Wasileska) spar relentlessly in sex and in free-form art that is manifest in adventures in style and consumerism. He's a narcissist with an established reputation, and she's a rising star with a streak of Nihilism, eerily hairless due to an autoimmune condition. Fantasies, costumes, tried-on personas, similarities and increasingly amplified differences play out as curator/filmmaker Ronduda (PERFORMER) conjures up the dimensions of their shared life and love with audacious avant-garde imagery. In Polish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Visit Films. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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"Sweepingly romantic…the most roundly satisfying film Wenders has made since [WINGS OF DESIRE]." - John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

"Sterling performances from stars Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy…the duo exhibit a sexy and emotional chemistry that goes miles towards selling their intense and rapid romance." - Kate Erbland, Indiewire

Wim Wenders keeps moving down the road, a restless traveller whose outsized curiosity spans continents, genres, generations, and the tenuous divide between documentary and fiction. Based on Scottish author J.M. Ledgard's international bestseller, SUBMERGENCE encompasses grand crashing-surf romance, dangerous espionage, international terrorism, and environmental crisis, all wrapped around the central metaphors of water and enveloping depths. The film begins with two lovers torn apart - Dani (Vikander) in a deep-sea submersible, James (McAvoy) in an Al Qaeda hellhole. Doubling back in time, we see them fall intensely in love at a Normandy seaside resort, before embarking on separate missions: James as a British spy seeking to infiltrate an Al Qaeda terrorist base in Somalia, Dani as a marine scientist searching the deepest layer of the ocean for clues to the sustainability of life on earth. Wenders takes his trademark crosscutting to almost mystical level, interweaving the two separated lovers and bringing them to a climax of operatic grandeur. In English. Courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films. DCP digital. (MR)

Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza

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Sat, Mar 24, 2018 - 08:00pm

Tue, Mar 27, 2018 - 06:00pm

This elegant, beautifully photographed murder mystery incorporates a strong environmental message and an inside story of the competitive Prosecco business in the Veneto region. The dashing, opinionated Count Ancillotto (Rade Serbedzija), as unstinting in his criticism of a nearby pollution-producing factory as he is proud of his family's heritage of making the finest Prosecco, kills himself with the flair and style that have marked his life. The motives for the suicide are mysterious, and the mystery deepens when a couple of the Count's best-known enemies are gunned down. Portly police inspector Stucky (Battiston), a socially awkward outsider of half-Persian descent, is assigned to this baffling case in which the main suspect is a dead man. The trail leads Stucky to a sharpshooting Venetian prostitute, a crazed gravedigger, and an exclusive Prosecco brotherhood, but the real revelation for the policeman is the late Count's credo of savoring the finer things in life and fighting to preserve them. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Fandango. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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Sat, Mar 24, 2018 - 05:30pm

Wed, Mar 28, 2018 - 08:00pm

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A satirical comedy for the digital age, OMNIPRESENT is a hilarious cautionary tale for anyone tempted to use their devices for a sneaky peak at the private lives of others. Director Djevelekov's obsession with electronic surveillance, first seen in his Internet dating hit LOVE.NET, expands in this timely comedy. Ad agency owner Emil rigs up a spy camera in his invalid dad's living room to catch a thief, presumed to be the caregiver, but the camera proves otherwise. The process is intoxicating, and soon Emil has planted cameras at work and throughout his home, reveling in catching co-workers and friends, his wife, his father-in-law, and more in plans and plots, secret liaisons, betrayals and bad habits. It's the ultimate reality TV until it all goes wrong and Emil's worst nightmare comeuppance goes viral. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Miramar Film. ProRes digital widescreen. (BS)

This ingenious tour de farce by actor (TONI ERDMANN) / director (EVERYDAY OBJECTS) / critic ("Revolver") Wackerbarth centers on the production of a made-for-TV remake of R.W. Fassbinder's 1972 masterpiece THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. Wackerbarth draws additional inspiration from BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE, RWF's classic black comedy of an imploding film production, so that the power dynamics Fassbinder saw at the root of all love relationships merge with the power dynamics of a movie set. The PETRA remake's director Vera (Engel) has already taken the dubious step of heterosexualizing Fassbinder's all-lesbian original ("It's about love, not lesbian love," she claims), and things get worse when she is unable to cast the lead role. Actress after actress is auditioned, only to be summarily dismissed, while the crew grumbles, the producers grow more frantic, and an obscure actor (Lust) used as a stand-in sees a chance to profit from the confusion. In German with English subtitles. Courtesy of Goethe-Institut Chicago. DCP digital. (MR)

A middle-aged man searching for work among the faltering economies of Eastern Europe gets sucked down the colorfully absurd rabbit hole of first-time director Kristóf's quasi-road movie. Laid off from a nuclear power plant along with almost half of the work force, Agoston (Terhes) leaves wife and daughter to pursue a job in a neighboring country. The opportunity turns out to be a scam, but involves a strange bit of payoff, beginning the chain of loony characters and odd and odder circumstances that come his way, ranging from a would-be lover with a fixation on an earless stuffed rabbit to an all-night pickles-and-vodka bacchanal that goes mind-bogglingly wrong in the woodsy lair of a seriously off-the-grid Russian couple. In Slovak, Hungarian, Latvian, and Russian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Cercamon. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

In 1777, in a last-ditch bid for a cure, a wealthy Viennese couple commits their ungainly blind daughter Maria (Dragus, of Haneke's THE WHITE RIBBON), a self-taught harpsichord prodigy, to the care of Dr. Franz Mesmer (Streisow), notorious for his unorthodox experiments with hypnotism and magnetic fields. Eschewing romanticism, director Albert (FREE RADICALS) combines historical accuracy and a sumptuous production design with an acutely contemporary sense of class and the mechanics of manipulation, as the talented Maria becomes a pawn between her parents and the ambitious society doctor, but discovers that the possibility of sight comes at a terrible price. In German and French with English subtitles. Courtesy of First Run Features. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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"With narrative restraint and a lapidary visual style, Mr. Beauvois opens up this isolated world with stirring emotional force." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

The year is 1916, and rural France is an empire of women. The men are either fighting at the front or already dead. It is the women who till the fields, harvest the crops, and fill the church on Sunday, many wearing the black veil of mourning. The Sandrail family needs a farmhand, but, since all the able-bodied men are gone, they hire a housemaid named Francine (Bry). The strapping red-headed orphan proves equal to the task, becoming a fixture in the family and falling in love with one of their soldier sons, until allegiances of class and blood trump those of gender and affection. Adapting Ernest Pérochon's 1924 novel, director Beauvois (OF GODS AND MEN) delivers a model of absorbing, classical storytelling, set against a ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural life. Baye is commanding as the Sandrails' iron-willed matriarch, but the film is dominated by newcomer Bry's revelatory tough/tender performance as Francine, the farm girl who quietly but firmly carves out her place in the world. In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Music Box Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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Fri, Mar 30, 2018 - 02:00pm

Sat, Mar 31, 2018 - 03:00pm

"A deeply personal affair, and leaves you reminiscing about your own (misspent) times in a velveteen upholstered chair, at the back of a dark room. It's a surprisingly simple idea, well executed and very evocative." - Alexander Bawden, The Upcoming

The movies look at themselves in this debut feature by Paul Anton Smith, which recalls the myriad ways in which they have been publicly exhibited, from opulent movie palaces to drive-ins to seedy porn theaters. A close collaborator of Christian Marclay and one of the battery of editors employed to work on his seminal found-footage work THE CLOCK, Smith draws on clips from hundreds of films and finds a narrative through-line across decades of moviegoing that demonstrates the integral role the ritual of viewing movies in public has maintained for over a century. Smith's dense audiovisual assemblage distinguishes itself as more than just a supercut of movie scenes set in movie theaters through its clever editing and narrative ingenuity, demonstrating that, while settings and audiences may change, the allure of the communal big-screen experience remains undiminished. In English. Courtesy of Paul Anton Smith. DCP digital. (CW)

Lasciati andare

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Fri, Mar 30, 2018 - 04:00pm

Sat, Mar 31, 2018 - 08:00pm

It's screwball Italian style, flavored with Jewish wit à la Woody and straight-up slapstick à la Stan & Ollie, in this bright twist on the classic comedy trope of the uptight male whose life is upended by a madcap female. Top Italian actor Toni Servillo (THE GREAT BEAUTY, IL DIVO) gets a chance to flex his comic talents as a Rome-based Jewish psychiatrist who likes to keep life at a comfortable, well-managed distance- including his wife Giovanna, separated but living on cordial terms in the apartment right next door. Then his doctor's orders to get more exercise put him on a collision course with a hot-blooded fitness instructor (Echegui of YOU'RE KILLING ME SUSANA) who becomes his personal trainer and whose baggage includes a son who likes to set things on fire and a jailbird boyfriend (Luca Marinelli) who needs the shrink's hypnosis skills to help him remember where he buried a pile of ill-gotten loot. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Menemsha Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Es war einmal in Deutschland…

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"It tells an unusual story with gusto, enlivened by an enjoyable performance from Moritz Bleibtreu." - David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

"An entertaining, watchable take on the oppressed-minority-comeback genre." - Lee Marshall, Screen International

After World War II, some 4,000 Jews chose to remain in Germany, for reasons not always easy to explain to themselves or their families. Adapted from the fact-based novel "The Traveling Salesmen" by co-scripter Michel Bergmann, this bittersweet con-artist dramedy boldly mixes tones to tell the story of one of those who remained. Dapper, devious David Bermann (Bleibtreu), whose family was wiped out in the Holocaust, enlists a team of fellow survivors in a PAPER MOON-like scheme to sell linens to guilt-ridden Germans. "We're the Jewish revenge," David unapologetically tells his confederates. Meanwhile, he is being investigated by the American Army for suspected collaboration with the Nazis. He tells a skeptical female officer (Traue) how his joke-telling prowess impressed the concentration camp commandant so much that he was enlisted to teach to the humor-impaired Hitler how to be funny! An unlikely tale, but what if it were true? In German, English, and Yiddish with English subtitles. Courtesy of Film Movement. DCP digital. (MR)

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"Blends historical context with genre filmmaking, managing to feel both important and exciting." - Stephen Porzio, Film Ireland

The biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history, involving the escape of 38 IRA prisoners from high-security Maze prison in September 1983, is dramatized in a tense but remarkably even-handed story that foregrounds the relationship between failed hunger-striker Larry Marley (Vaughan-Lawlor) and Gordon (Ward, of Ken Loach's JIMMY'S HALL), the steely, arrogant head guard. The republican political prisoners are forced into pressure-cooker conditions under the noses of virulently hostile loyalists in the same cellblock. Marley wins over his compatriots to an escape plan, hoping to play his captor like a fish, but complications grow, along with his grudging respect for the hardened guard. Courtesy of Visit Films. DCP digital widescreen (BS)

Rising star Dosch (AGE OF PANIC) and first-time director Serraille took the 2017 Cannes Film Festival by storm with this unruly-young-woman-on-the-loose saga built around Dosch's whirlwind performance. After being muse, lover, and appendage to a hotshot photographer for ten years, Paula (Dosch) is abruptly dumped. She scrambles to rebuild her life by embracing impulse and improvisation - bouncing from one crash pad to another; faking her way through job interviews; taking shameless advantage of friends and family; playing along when a complete stranger misrecognizes her as a long-lost schoolmate; and juggling unlikely gigs as a rich family's babysitter and a salesgirl at a posh knicker bar. Then her ex's repentance and an unplanned pregnancy seem to offer this recovering trainwreck a chance to get her life back on track. Is it a trap, or is there such a thing as too much freedom? In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of UniFrance Films and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. DCP digital. (MR)

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"One man's quest for the truth against all odds…works well both as a film and as a statement." - Marko Stojilkovic, Cineuropa

Slovenia's submission for Oscar consideration is a tense fictional tale delving into the discovery of the evidence of a war crime down an abandoned mine shaft, and loosely based on the memoir "Nobody" by Mehmedalija Aliç. Alija (Lucev), a miner for a company in the process of downsizing, faces a crisis of conscience when sent on a fool's errand to inspect a long-shuttered tunnel. Instructed under threat of dismissal to certify that the mine contains nothing, he discovers that behind a carefully built wall there is horrifying evidence of a mass murder. What is hidden there is an open secret among the locals, but no one will talk except for one half-crazy old man. To his peril, Alija is not planning to keep secrets. In Slovenian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Nukleus Film. DCP digital. (BS)

Az állampolgár

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Fri, Mar 30, 2018 - 08:00pm

Tue, Apr 3, 2018 - 06:00pm

A culturally biased citizenship exam promises to be the undoing of middle-aged African immigrant Wilson (first-time actor Cake-Baly, who brings breathtaking grace and nuance to the role). Wilson fled the civil war that killed his family and now works as a security guard in a Budapest supermarket, striving to become a full-fledged citizen of his new country. This touching humanist drama exposes the unwelcoming climate that greets many immigrants to Europe, as Wilson finds a sympathetic teacher and prospective lover in lonely abused wife Mari (Máhr). Coping with the daily needling of exclusion and racism, he makes the dangerous misstep of giving shelter to an illegal immigrant, a young pregnant Iranian. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Courtesy of ArtMattan Productions. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

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The first Lithuanian film to be selected for the Toronto Film Festival in seventeen years, this ironic fable is set in the early 1990s, during the difficult transitional period after the fall of communism. The collective pig farm that Irena (Mikulionytė) manages, a holdover from the Soviet era, has fallen on hard times, and her unpopularity grows every day in the impoverished village. Arriving to make everything great again is Bernardas (Ruginis), a glad-handing American looking to reconnect with his Lithuanian homeland. This red-headed miracle-worker offers to buy out the farm, and soon the village is rolling in prosperity, with a TV set in every parlor. Too good to be true? You'd better believe it! In her first feature, director Vertelytė employs deadpan comedy reminiscent of Aki Kaurismäki to cast a critical eye on both restrictive communism and rapacious capitalism, the latter connected to a certain prominent redhead whom the film's American benefactor resembles. In Lithuanian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Wide Management. DCP digital. (MR)

Dode Hoek

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Sat, Mar 31, 2018 - 05:45pm

Tue, Apr 3, 2018 - 08:15pm

"A blaring film…scorchingly topical." — Aurore Engelen, Cineuropa

An urban thriller set in after-dark Antwerp, this policier by Moroccan-Belgian director Ben Yadir utilizes amped-up tension between the immigrant population and native Europeans as the explosive backdrop to a story centered on a ruthlessly corrupt police commissioner. Jan Vanderbeeck (Van den Begin, of KING OF THE BELGIANS in a savage performance) uses his track record as a narcotics enforcer as a springboard into conservative politics, parading his mentor relationship with a young Moroccan cop to defuse public distaste for his nativist views. On the eve of announcing his candidacy, Jan plots the showboating capture of a Turkish drug lord, a plan based precariously on intelligence from a murky source. In Flemish and French with English subtitles. Courtesy of Indie Sales. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Two veteran stars give affecting depth to the story of a mother's late-life bid to come into her own as a woman in this Czech submission for 2018 Oscar consideration. Long-widowed Hana (Kronerová), feisty and vital, is inexplicably a doormat to her spoiled adult sons and their needy wives. Attending a race for ice swimmers, she surprises one and all by performing a rescue in the freezing river and in the process meets Brona (Novy), an unusual man with a pet chicken and a checkered life history. Director Slamá (SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS, THE COUNTRY TEACHER) peppers the drama with bursts of comedy, and brings undisguised eroticism to the courtship of these mature lovers, as Hana's sons simmer and sulk at mom's newfound bloom. In Czech with English subtitles. Courtesy of FilmRise. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)

Een echte Vermeer

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Sun, Apr 1, 2018 - 05:00pm

Wed, Apr 4, 2018 - 08:00pm

The life of Han van Meegeren, one of Europe's most famous art forgers, is colorfully embroidered in this fictionalized account of his notorious career. A desperately poor married womanizer with champagne tastes, the talented artist Han finds his old-fashioned style spurned while critics and collectors swoon over the work of the up-and-coming Picasso. His revenge starts with seducing the beautiful Jólanka, wife of Holland's most powerful art critic, but soon takes the more lucrative path of forging paintings by Vermeer. Van Meegeren's new career becomes dangerous when one of his forgeries is coveted by a high-ranking Nazi, and the provenance of the work becomes the focus of a post-war show trial, with the artist accused as a collaborator. In Dutch with English subtitles. Courtesy of Paul Thiltges Distribution. ProRes digital. (BS)

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Le Redoubtable

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Sun, Apr 1, 2018 - 03:00pm

Wed, Apr 4, 2018 - 06:00pm

"It's a dazzlingly executed, hugely enjoyable act of stylistic homage, but also the poignant story of a dysfunctional marriage and an insightful recreation of a critical and contradiction-ridden period of modern French history." — Jonathan Romney, Screen International

Michel Hazanavicius (director of the Academy Award-winning THE ARTIST) chronicles the relationship between legendary French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (played by an unrecognizable Louis Garrel) and his second wife, AU HASARD BALTHAZAR actress Anne Wiazemsky (Stacey Martin), in this breezy, comedic adaptation of Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel "Un an après." When Godard's first collaboration with Wiazemsky, the Maoist-flirting LA CHINOISE, is met with wide antipathy, the notoriously temperamental director is flung into a personal, artistic and political crisis that is only exacerbated by the student riots of May '68. In the midst of Godard's attempts to reinvent himself in the image of the political revolutionary, Wiazemsky finds herself less and less enthralled with the wearying antics of French cinema's former wunderkind. Rife with homages to many of Godard's classic films, GODARD MON AMOUR is a fascinating and irreverent peek at one of the key transitional moments in the life and career of one of international cinema's great iconoclasts. In French with English subtitles. Special advance screening courtesy of Cohen Media Group. DCP digital. (CW)

Mens vi lever

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Mon, Apr 2, 2018 - 06:00pm

Thu, Apr 5, 2018 - 08:30pm

After relocating from Iran to Denmark, the Avaz brothers (director Mehdi and co-screenwriter Milad) made their feature debut with this fact-based drama that stakes family and romantic relationships on a reckoning with past guilt and tragedy. Kristian (Jessen) is living with his fiancée and working on a fishing boat in Northern Denmark, when his surrogate father's terminal illness calls him back to the hometown that he had fled years before. There he is plunged back into the unquiet past, when he was taken in by a family whose golden-boy son Tobias (Groth) and daughter Trine (Christiansen) became his best friend and lover, respectively, until a catastrophic event shattered the bond between them. The intricately structured narrative interweaves past and present to peel back layers of buried resentment and guilt, suspending Kristian between two lives and compelling him to make a choice. Nominated for five Danish Film Academy awards, including Best Picture. In Danish with English subtitles. Courtesy of UniFrance Films, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Europa International, and Europa Cinemas. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

Please note: This trailer does not have English subtitles. Our screenings of the film will be subtitled in English.

Το αγόρι στη γέφυρα / To agóri sti géfyra

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 - 06:00pm

Thu, Apr 5, 2018 - 08:30pm

"Reveals the troubling truths about a family that on the surface looks perfect." - Ulkar Alakbarova, Let the Movies Move Us

In this drama based on the novel "The Land of the Golden Apple" by Eve Makis, the peace of an idyllic Cypriot village is shattered and a boy's childhood comes to an abrupt end one day in 1988, when a murder is discovered at the height of the local holiday carnival. The increasingly dangerous pranks of twelve-year-old Socrates border on delinquency, when, in league with his cousin and under the influence of a grizzled veteran, he models himself on the naïve fantasy of the freedom-fighter grandfather he never met. A fireworks caper that goes too far not only blows a series of intimate family secrets wide open but makes the boy a prime suspect in the murder. In Greek with English subtitles. Courtesy of AMP Filmworks. ProRes digital. (BS)

Der junge Karl Marx

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"Sinewy and intensely focused…It should be dull but it isn't. Somehow the spectacle of angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping." — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Thanks to a game and charismatic cast, the story's characters are as richly drawn as they are poorly financed; Marx is humanized by the humor and vitality with which Diehl plays him, and his wife is never accessorized, but instead regarded as indispensable to this history." — David Ehrlich, Indiewire

From LUMUMBA to I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, Raoul Peck has sought to bring complex political issues to vivid, undiluted life. His latest film, a passion project many years in gestation, takes on one of the most influential figures in modern history and finds the sweet spot between a compelling biopic and a substantial treatment of Marx's thought. The film begins in 1843 with Europe on the brink of political revolution. Marx (Diehl) is an impoverished journalist struggling to support his family while his inflammatory writings keep them on the move, from Prussia to Paris to Brussels to London. His path crosses that of wealthy mill-owner's son Friedrich Engels, and, after a contentious first meeting, they join forces to shape a theoretical foundation for the political ferment that is boiling over in Europe. The film bristles with forceful debates and the memorable personalities involved in them. Marx is seen not as a solitary prophet but a thinker whose ideas evolved in dialogue with those around him, including the dandyish Engels (Konarske), Marx's high-born but politically astute wife Jenny (Vicky Krieps of PHANTOM THREAD), Engels's Irish labor-activist wife Mary Burns, and the radical father-figures Bakunin and Proudhon (the latter played with scene-stealing gusto by Dardenne favorite Olivier Gourmet). In German, French, and English with English subtitles. Courtesy of The Orchard. DCP digital. (MR)